“I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.”

“I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'.”

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”

“I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens”

“Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.”

“During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.”

“The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.”